By Doug Cunningham [Joseph Flynn]: “No evidence supports the claim that privatizing the VA would bring veterans better care.” AFGE national Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Flynn. The American Federation of Government Employees wants to save the VA from privatization. The union says with 49,000 unfilled positions at the VA, hiring more people to care for vets would ...

[Joseph Flynn]: “No evidence supports the claim that privatizing the VA would bring veterans better care.” AFGE national Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Flynn. The American Federation of Government Employees wants to save the VA from privatization. The union says with 49,000 unfilled positions at the VA, hiring more people to care for vets would be a far ...

By Doug Cunningham NAFTA re-negotiation started Wednesday morning at Washington DC’s Marriott Hotel, but corporate voices dominate at the negotiation table. And the actual text of the rules being re-negotiated is classified information, shutting out the public. The AFL-CIO’s Celeste Drake is at the NAFTA re-negotiation table for working people. She says working people need ...

Republicans generally claim to hate government regulations, but tend to want to tightly regulate or abolish union rights – most often with the goal of weakening labor unions financially and politically. One case in point is HR 1461. The anti-union bill by Texas Republican Rep. Jodey Arrington seeks to weaken and cripple AFGE – the ...

A Trump backed VA bill making it easier to fire VA workers is being spun by the GOP as real accountability for the Veterans Administration. Already passed by the House, the VA Accountability First Act of 2017 undermines and weakens collective bargaining for VA workers, stripping them of real due process grievance procedures. Jacque Simon ...

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